Story about my Dads poppy, it’s made with porcupine quills, birchbark and Sweetgrass. One of my Dads geezer friends, a veteran, critiqued it, saying the Legion doesn’t recognize it. My Dad said Indigenous Vets fought for Canada 🇨🇦 and weren’t allowed to join the Legion. 1/ 
They fought with Valour and were decorated but when they came home, the country they fought for didn’t recognize them. So my Dad wears his poppy to educate. ctvnews.ca/canada/only-eq… 2/
The inaugural #dayoftruthandreconciliation challenges us all to learn throughout the year. As #RemembranceDay approaches, it’s also an opportunity to look at the tremendous service and history of Indigenous Veterans. While I remember with pride, all the men and women from 3/
my home community who’ve served, I also feel so proud of our current generation stepping up for service south of the medicine line, my cousins who became US Marines. 4/
So my Poppy doesn’t look like yours, and I use mine to educate as well. By educating, I honour those who served, and those who gave all. By educating, I help to right a wrong and challenge us all to do better, to demand better not just for Indigenous Vets 5/
but to right so many of the stories Canadians hold as true about Indigenous people. The story of our Veterans is colourful and heroic. A story that ought to be told and heard. Ekosi/That’s all/End.
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